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ClustrMaps
2009 Sun 1st Nov First Official Blog Goal
First blog goal: To post a blog every day for the next 20 days.
I figure if I start small-ish, I have a better chance of making the goal. Besides, I know that once the holidays start I might miss a few. And then there is the vacation I'll be on for 11 days, 5 of which I'll be in the middle of the ocean and may not have access to blogging options.
So, November 1, the day of Falling Back with the time. The day after Halloween, always a fun time! Even at (almost) 40 I still dress up every year, even if I'm just handing out candy. In fact, I prefer to dress up and hand out candy rather than go out in public for random shopping or lunch dressed up.
I went out on Thursday night to this big event my town has every Thursday night of the year (unless it falls on a major holiday) and had a great time watching the costumed people. My favorite, of course, was the group of zombies all traveling together, walking slowly and gurgling out "Brainssss" every now and then. I LOVE zombies!!
The next best costume was Jack Sparrow. This guy did a great job of acting out the mannerisms and holding his hands out and just generally looking like Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow. I had to laugh at the number of people (teens, kids, and even adults) who asked this guy to take a picture with them. I mean really people, this was just a random guy in a good costume, but he was very gracious about it so he gets brownie points from me!
The most effort for costume had to go to the Skunk couple - a guy and girl with full skunk gear on. Now, I don't know if it really took effort, or if they were rented or what, but the costumes were big, bulky, and not just something thrown together from what you had in your closet.
My favorite little person costume was a set of twins who were about a year old and were sitting in a wagon which had been made up to look like a planter and the kids were dressed in flower costumes. It was very Anne Geddes-esque.
As for Halloween night, I was disappointed in how few trick-or-treaters we actually had visit the house. We live in a family oriented neighborhood that is the perfect design for safe trick-or-treating so where did they all go?! I am gonna have to figure this out - is there some town sanctioned Halloween deal that I am not aware of that prevents the majority of kids from trick-or-treating in neighborhoods these days?
I dressed up as a Roller Derby girl, of course! My wildly curly hair in pig tails, tights and fishnets, short skirt, skimpy tank top, false eye lashes, extra makeup with sparkle, and the all important derby skates! If nothing else, my hubby was a big fan of it and of me - I'm such a lucky girl!! Now if I can just get rid of all this extra candy without inhaling it myself, it will be great!